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I'm rather new to the whole TeX experience and try to make a template to use for my masters thesis. Everything has been smooth except getting the references/bibliography right. I've spent numerous hours here, on CTAN and other sites to set up a Harvard style system.

I finally got it working using biblatex with bibtex as backend but one problem remains. There is no spacing between each entry. Normally there would be an indent but since I use the parskip package they are removed and for some reason the space that replace the indent in the body text does not appear in the bibliography.

I've made a minimum working example showing my problem plus one more thing that is acting weird, the whole .bib file is printed even if all works are not cited.

I would very much appreciate getting some help with this. Have spent hours trying different solutions proposed to similar problems without much luck.

I'm currently compiling with XeLatex and I'll try to provide additional details if needed. The whole thing is a little bit confusing still.

Here follows my working example:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,titlepage]{article} \usepackage[parfill]{parskip} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{avant} %fontpack \renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault} \usepackage[style=authoryear]{biblatex} \bibliography{test} \title{Biblatex test} \author{Byggarebob} \begin{document} \maketitle Blablabla \cite{1} Blablabla \cite{2} Blablabla %\cite{3} \printbibliography \end{document}

My .bib file called test.bib:

@book{1, author = {Penguin}, title = {Cold}, date = {2012-10-05}, } @online{2, author = {Cat}, ALTeditor = {editor}, title = {Google}, date = {2012-12-10}, url = {www.google.com}, } @article{3, author = {Dog}, title = {Running}, journaltitle = {Happy hound}, date = {2012-11-15}, }
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    For this "All bib entries show up even if not cited" thing: have you made sure that you re-ran latex bibtex latex (or xelatex or whatever in your case replaces latex) after commenting the citation of the third entry? With me everything compiles fine here and the third reference doesn't show up. Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 19:11
  • Must be an issue with my settings somehow then. I tried both the build and compile button and nothing change. I have suspected this for a little while since no notable change appeared while trying different solutions earlier this evening. Perhaps I should try a different editor for that part of the question and compare. Thanks so far! Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 19:15
  • Maybe your editor has a dedicated button to call bibtex explicitly and without having to go through the whole build process. Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 19:18
  • Moved from texstudio to texworks and still get all three references for some reason. A little odd. Commented Dec 10, 2012 at 19:20

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In order to get a blank line between bibliography entries, you simply need to set the \bibitemsep length:

\setlength{\bibitemsep}{\baselineskip}

You don't need to redefine the bibliography environment to do this.

You also need to tell biblatex that you are using the bibtex backend:

\usepackage[style=authoryear, backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

and you should use

\addbibresource{<bibname.bib>}

instead of \bibliography{<bibname>} (which is now deprecated).

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